Warsaw foresees an escalation of tension due to the increase in migrants on the Belarusian border with Poland. As they denounce, Lukashenko facilitates their passage through Belarus, as a political weapon against the EU. Meanwhile, hundreds of people, including minors, wait for a solution in the cold.
The Polish government has decided increase its military presence on the border with Belarus Faced with the accumulation of migrants seeking asylum in the European Union, it is preparing for possible incidents and has banned land trafficking in the area until further notice.
Warsaw has announced that it will expand the military forces stationed on the border, currently numbering 12,000, and has ordered the urgent mobilization of two battalions in the province of Podlasia (east), one of the three Polish regions that remain in state of emergency since September 2.
In addition, police forces from various cities, such as Poznan, Gdansk and Lódz, have been transferred there to assist in surveillance.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki declared today that “seal the border” It is “in the national interest” of Poland “and added that” also the stability and security of the entire European Union (EU) are threatened. “
“We will not be intimidated and we will defend peace in Europe with our partners from NATO and the EU,” said the head of the Polish Government.
During Monday night, more than 2000 people they piled up in front of the fence that delimits the Polish-Belarusian border in the Kuznica area and, when they tried to tear it down, the Polish border forces repulsed them with water cannons.
In one of the videos, shots are seen from the Belarusian side, which in the opinion of the Polish general Waldemar Skrzypczak, “may be executions” of migrants to force them to stay on the Polish border, because, according to him, “Belarusians are capable of any thing”.
For his part, another senior Polish official, General Roman Polko, assured on Monday that he was aware that among the migrants there are people “who show signs of belonging to the Belarusian secret service” and assured that the Minsk authorities provide the refugees with “numbers.” number of Polish journalists and organizations “to coordinate their infiltrations and who” use children to provoke empathy.
The president of the Polish Parliament, Elzbieta Witek, who has scheduled an extraordinary session to discuss the situation on Tuesday, assured that her government “is prepared for any scenario.”
Since last spring, the number of illegal entry attempts into Poland from Belarus has multiplied, and both Poland and the EU consider this to be the result of Aleksander Lukashenko’s plan to destabilize Europe.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has called on the countries of the European Union (EU) to approve new sanctions against Belarus for using the migration as a political weapon against the Twenty-seven.
Petition for four Nobel prizes
The Nobel Prize in Literature Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus), Herta Müller (Germany) and Elfriede Jellinek (Austria) have requested in a letter to the European Parliament “do not close your eyes to tragedy” currently happening on the border between Poland and Belarus and seek a humanitarian solution.
The letter indicates that the state of emergency declared by the Polish Government has led to the inaccessibility of medical teams to the area to help the sick as well as the media, so that the information that arrives is fragmentary.
They denounce that Belarusian President Alexander Lukaschenko attracts refugees to Minsk, from where he takes them to the forests near the Polish border. “There they are taken with violence towards Poland, the Polish border authorities also return them with violence. In the most serious cases the confrontation has a fatal outcome,” they warn.
“We ask that this humanitarian crisis be resolved as soon as possible, respect the rules of the Geneva Convention for refugees and give access to the asylum procedure to all those who request it and are detained at the EU border,” he adds.
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